Hans de Graaff wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 20:35 +0900, Daichi Kawahata wrote:

> > I've just finished downloading & compiling, noticed that default value
> > whether gtkg will be built officially was [n]. I don't think it's the
> > matter, but should it be [y] if possible ?

I'd agree that for release "official" should be the default.

> The use of this flag is documented in the README, including hints on its
> usage. I agree that it makes sense to have the official stable versions
> default to [y] here.

If I remember correctly, the documentation was actually added after
it was noticed that people and distributions were not aware of its
implications. Just consider someone building gtk-gnutella in /tmp
or any other directory that's likely to be writeable (or creatable)
on any user's machine. gtk-gnutella attempts to load icons from those
paths then and there have been quite a few security issues with
libXpm and libpng which are used by Gtk+ as well.

That's why I've also added emitting a startup message showing the
path that's used by unofficial builds. However, it's probably best
to put something annoying like "for testing only" in the window
title or the like.

-- 
Christian

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